ERC Starting Grants
Three Swiss philosophers have received ERC Starting Grants, financed by the SNSF due to Switzerland's exclusion from Horizon Europe (cf. the post on DailyNous and the press release by UniBe):
- Sabine Hohl, "Just Parenthood: The Ethics and Politics of Childrearing in the 21st Century", 01.01.2023 – 31.12.2027
- Benjamin Matheson, Collective Guilt and Shame (SBFI finanziert), 2023-2027)
- 3-year post-doc position (deadline February 1, 2023)
- 4-year PhD-position (deadline February 1, 2023)
- Baptiste Le Bihan, “Space, Time and Causation in Quantum Gravity”, Geneva
- Damiano Costa, "Temporal Existence”, Neuchâtel
April 2022 call
- Martine Nida-Rümelin, "Essential Indexicality and Thoughts about Experience", University of Fribourg, 01.02.2023 – 31.07.2025
- Jörg Löschke, "Die Normativität von Glaubwürdigkeitszuschreibungen", University of Zurich, 01.10.2022 – 30.09.2025
- Olivier Massin / Kathrin Koslicki, "An Ontology of Production, Products, and By-Products", University of Neuchâtel, 01.10.2022 – 30.09.2026
- Kevin Mulligan, "Essentialism and Mentalism in Austrian Economics", USI, 01.11.2022 – 31.10.2025
- Michael Hampe, "Gesten der Philosophie. 50 Jahre zeigender Philosophie 1920-1970", ETH Zürich, 01.10.2022 – 31.07.2026
October 2021 call
- Christian Wüthrich, "Philosophy Beyond Standard Physics", University of Geneva, 01.02.2023 – 31.01.2027
- Ralf Bader, "Authority and Territory", University of Fribourg, 01.09.2022 – 31.08.2026
- Francis Cheneval, "Automated Decision-Making and the Foundations of Political Authority" University of Zurich, 01.05.2022 – 30.04.2026
- Marcel Weber, "Philosophy of Infectious Disease Epidemiology: Modeling, Values, and Policy Advice", University of Geneva, 01.04.2022 – 31.03.2026
- Nikola Biller-Andorno, "Ethics of triage", University of Zurich (Institut für Biomedizinische Ethik), 01.04.2022 – 31.03.2024
- Antonietta Di Giulio, "A conceptual framework for sustainable consumption - bridging perspectives in a boundary concept (Frame4SC)", University of Basel (Programm MGU), 01.05.2022 – 30.04.2025
Ongoing research projects from earlier calls
- Michael Esfeld, "Parsimonious ontology and the relationship between science and persons", University of Lausanne, 01.12.2021 – 30.11.2025
- Giovanni Ventimiglia, "Senses of Being. The Medieval Reception of Aristotle’s doctrine starting from Metaphysics V 7 (1017 a7-b9)", University of Lucerne, 01.09.2021 – 31.08.2025
- Fabrice Correia, "Describing the World", University of Geneva, 01.09.2021 – 31.08.2025
- Gunnar Hindrichs, "Krise und Handlungsmöglichkeit", University of Basel, 01.08.2021 – 31.07.2025
- Nadja Eggert, "PASOR: Personnes âgées, soignants, robots: repenser la place du corps vulnérable dans le domaine du soin gériatrique", University of Lausanne (Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche en éthique), 01.05.2022 – 30.04.2025
- Kevin Mulligan, "The Genealogy of Modes of Being", USI, 01.04.2022 – 31.03.2025
- Laurent Cesalli, "Philosophy in the Islamic World During the 'Post-classical Period' (13th-18th Centuries)", University of Geneva, 01.04.2021 – 31.03.2025
- Ivo Wallimann-Helmer, "Principles for Ethical Decision-Making in Environmental Practice", University of Fribourg (Environmental Humanities), 01.04.2021 – 31.03.2025
- Emanuela Ceva, "Endogenous Institutional Trustworthiness (EnTrust) - A conceptual and normative inquiry with the tools of analytical political philosophy", University of Geneva (Institut des sciences de l'environnement), 01.01.2021 – 31.12.2024
- Claus Beisbart, "Improving Interpretability. Philosophy of Science Perspectives on Machine Learning", University of Berne, 01.12.2020 – 30.11.2024
- Christoph Halbig, "Grounding Rights", University of Zurich, 01.09.2020 – 31.08.2024
- Anne Meylan, "Suspension of judgement: its nature and its norms", University of Zurich, 01.09.2020 – 31.08.2024
- Katerina Ierodiakonou, "Theophrastus, De sensibus: critical edition, english translation and commentary", University of Geneva, 01.04.2021 – 31.03.2024
- Maarten J.F.M. Hoenen, "Das Logikverständnis bei Magnus Hundt. Eine Untersuchung zum Thomismus am Übergang vom Mittelalter zur Neuzeit", University of Basel, 01.04.2020 – 31.03.2024
- Laurent Cesalli, "Réalismes : Universaux, relations et états de choses dans les traditions austro-allemande et médiévale", University of Geneva, 01.03.2019 – 29.02.2024
- Peter Schaber, "The Value of Normative Powers", University of Zurich, 01.04.2021 – 31.01.2024
- Martine Nida-Rümelin, "The Subject of Experiences: The Significance of its Metaphysical Nature in the Philosophy of Mind", University of Fribourg, 01.12.2019 – 30.11.2023
- Paolo Crivelli, "Aristotle on Parts and Wholes", University of Geneva, 01.11.2019 – 31.10.2023
- Christoph Halbig, "Autonomy and Immorality. Hegel, Metaethical Constitutivism, and the Doctrine of Radical Evil", University of Zurich, 01.10.2020 – 30.09.2023
- Giovanni Ventimiglia, "Zwischen monastischer und reformierter Metaphysik: die schweizerische „Wiege“ der Ontologie im Zeitalter der Reformation", University of Lucerne, 01.09.2020 – 31.08.2023
- Ralph Weber, "The Exterior of Philosophy: On the Practice of New Confucianism" University of Basel (Europainstitut), 01.02.2019 – 31.08.2023
- Richard King, "Green Antiquity: Sino-Hellenic Environmental Philosophy", University of Berne, 01.06.2019 – 30.06.2023
- Katerina Ierodiakonou, "Theories of cognition in the aristotelian commentators", University of Geneva, 01.09.2018 – 31.03.2023